Why don't you create an easy ferdora like (easy ubuntu)or a feora mint (linux mint)
for people new to linux. please do not get me wrong I love Fedora but to make it usable is
a lot of work and I would never recomed to a friend because I would slave myself to his
dektop.
people NEED a dirty Fedora as you would call it. they will call it a usable OS.
thank you so very much for your hard work!!
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Why don't you create an easy ferdora like (easy ubuntu)or a feora
mint
(linux mint) for people new to linux. please do not get me wrong I love
Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would never recomed
to a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop.
people NEED a dirty Fedora as you would call it. they will call it a
usable OS.
thank you so very much for your hard work!!

Thinking back to installing RHL 4.2 and Slackware before that and Minux
before that, Fedora is a very easy to install product.
As you reference products that you think are easy to handle and
configure, they should be your starter installations. When you
successfully learn these easy for the general user installations, Fedora
will be easy to use also. Like anything, you want it as capable as
possible and as easy to configure as possible.
Regarding DVD or CD live distros, they should be available shortly with
the more capable Live CD creation programs. You might want to do a
search on Live CDs for Fedora or ask on the Fedora-list for a wider
group of people to pick their minds.
Along the lines of your topic, there should probably be a list for New
to Fedora but it is as easy to monitor the forums or lists and pick up
on topics that way. the lists have helped me learn a lot about programs
and better methods to accomplish tasks than was possible before going
onto the lists.
Meanwhile, the Fedora List seems the best place to go. But if you want
the official forum, go to the forum for Fedora.
Just a few comments for guidance to the better place to find
information. This list is for testing rpms in updates-testing and mainly
the development (Rawhide) continuous distribution.
Jim
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"Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing."
-- G. Steinem

Why don't you create an easy ferdora like (easy ubuntu)or a feora
mint
(linux mint) for people new to linux. please do not get me wrong I
love Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would never
recomed to a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop.
people NEED a dirty Fedora as you would call it. they will call it a
usable OS.
thank you so very much for your hard work!!

It's my understanding that any such
action would make one in accessory
to patent violation and in cases like the nvidia driver, GPL violation.
There's sadly no easy way around this, even what Livna does is
potentially iffy in a lot of countries.
At the very least it is not something the Fedora Project could
officially support nor create, no more than say the Ubuntu Foundation
supports and releases EasyUbuntu at least.
Yes.. lawyers suck, they take all the fun out of computing, sorry.
That being said, Fedora is incredibly easy to install, I've used various
Linux solutions for more than 8 years and I can confidently say that it
has never been a better or easier platform and it is only going to get
better. The improvement one would get from an EasyFedora program are
minimal given that sites like fedorasolved.org and fedorafaq.org exists.
- David Nielsen

Why don't you create an easy ferdora like (easy ubuntu)or a feora
mint
(linux mint) for people new to linux. please do not get me wrong I
love Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would never
recomed to a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop.
people NEED a dirty Fedora as you would call it. they will call it a
usable OS.
thank you so very much for your hard work!!

On 11/30/06, Frank S. <franklinux392(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
> Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would never
> recomed to
> a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop.
Explain that please.

He probably means that his friends would ask a number of questions that
would make him baby sit them through the steps.
Rahul

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Frank S. <franklinux392(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
>> Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would never
>> recomed to
>> a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop.
>
> Explain that please.
He probably means that his friends would ask a number of questions that
would make him baby sit them through the steps.
Rahul

As far as I remember, a 4-5 line bash script takes care of the average
non-Fedora needs.
1) yum -y update
2) Get livna repo files
3) get atrpms repo files
4) yum install (ati|nvidia|flash|mplayer|mplayer-codecs|other-non-free-sound-libs)
5) Download java runtime from sun
6) Install java rpm
Okay six lines. That about takes care of things.
Not saying that his friends would write the script, just that he would
write it and tell them to run this one thing to install everything
else that they may need.
Peace
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Fedora Core 6 and proud